Here's a thought, is there any way the Club could tie up with Bradford Uni/College and Students doing Marketing/Media Studies. Might be a very cheap way to get new ideas and an action plan on the Marketing front?

Why not merge these two threads into a BullBuilder one, and we can use it for anything that supporters would like to raise with the club or BullBuilder.

Also, if you haven't already, please join BullBuilder. We're already working with the club to provide extras for the academy, and every penny is appreciated. You can even join with PayPal now if you like - links in my signature.

Out of interest, has everyone here signed up to BullBuilder?

If not, then I suggest you do and lets pick up and run with some of these ideas.

Great minds!!

I'd be willing to give the ebay shop a go. I'm no ebay expert but I have sold a car and one or two other things on there before! I'd only have time to ship on a Sat but I'm sure that wouldn't be too big an issue.

And please RAB members get signed up to Bullbuilder! If you can afford £1.25 a week to make a regular contribution it will make a real difference to the amount we can do to attract and retain the top young talent!

Anything for myself to do or help out with?

sent my form in last week. And got 2 others who dont go on internet or attend many matches interested and gave them the forms. so thats an extra 180 coming into funds.

Simple thing that anyone can do but helps spread word to armchair supporters.

Good work.

isnt there some sort of interview/article coming up in T&A with regard to bullbuilder or have I missed it?. People Ive spoken to about it were totally unaware it was in existence and as soon as I told them aims were keen to sign up. Seems like a bit of a push is needed to get awareness up amongst the lapsed bulls fans who still follow teams progress but dont necessarily attend games or frequent the forums. Think key thing is to make them feel involved in club again, no matter if in a small way, and then hopefully as results improve they will be encouraged to start attending again.

Quite.

We putting something together to go in the T&A and hope to back that up with regular articles. Connor, the T&A guy is very supportive of the trust.

One of the most effective mediums we have, as you allude to, is word of mouth, so please (everyone) keep spreading the word.

Remember, just by joining you're helping, but if you want to go a step further and offer some help, then attend the next meeting. the more man hours and money we can raise, the more we can improve things.

We were hoping to attract some publicity with an event we were organising for the academy, but unfortunately it had to be cancelled due to the academy fixture against Cas being moved. We are working on some publicity pieces for the paper, but to be honest there is no better publicity than word of mouth and personal recommendation, so if you're supportive of BullBuilder then please tell any other Bulls fans you know. The bigger we are, the stronger we are and the larger the difference we can make for our club.

What are your skills? Any ideas what you'd like to do?